The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-22

| have direct wire TO their respective
stshlsb nents, over which IL flashed
10 them daily o. weekly, % may be,
the exact solar time from the Naval
Observatory ut Washington. Solar time
at Louisville 10 just seventeen min
utes two and one half seconds faster
than railroad or standard time. Lou
isvile jewellers keep two clocks-one
bearing railroad and the other solar
time, or else keep one cl, OK with
double hands, recording both kinds
Of time on the same dial. Tower
clocks are increasing in number, but
very slowly. Louisville has six or
eight great clocks In towers,
but not more than two OF them seem
to be recording time regularly. A
clock is prominent In almost every
Louisville store, office, bank or public
resort. These, with the public clocss,
enable the people to get on fairly
without watches. A nickel.plated
clock is retsiled as low as 81. A fair
one day clock 10 cold at SO and an
eight.day clock ct 50 The instalment
dealers, through persistent neighbour
hood canvassing, are selling clocks In
every corner on the weekly payment
plan. A man can hardly get the accu-
rate time everywhere in Louisville by
looking up, aud while nearly every
household, store and shop has It's
clock. there are very few on the "outer
walls" or towers, and the tendency to
increased publicity In time" 10 too
slow to be perceptibe. Aggressive
I'D vertisers for few seasons used the
nickel'plated clocks In place OF
"chromos" or other premiums, but
the experiment was spasmodic and
has about died out. "The tendency
is to q wider use Of good medium
Watches" said an old matchmaker;
every man and boy ought to have a
watch, and every Kentuckian will
have one as soon as he has bought and
paid Tor his pistol, which comes hrst."
IN WARRINGTON.
In Washington standard timep-
fixed according to lstilude-was sdop.
ted by the National Government
shortly after the scheme was agreed
upon by the railroad managers OF the
country, and the business houses and
citizens generally soon fell into line,
because they got their time from Z
Government institution. The astron-
omers Of the Navy Observatory.
charged with the important duty q
getting and keeping correct time, by
which their delicate calculations are
made, ard by which the chronometers
to go to every quarter OF the globe,
and on which so much depends, are
set, take frequent observations OF the
sun In order that the time may be ex
act. A slime ball" Ia dropped from a
stiff on top OF the dome Of ths OBJ.
servatory every day exactly at noon,
and by this many clocks and watches
are accurately set. The observstorys
connected by wire with other Govern.
ment buildings In the city, and with
the Western Union office, and thus
correct time u furnished 10 many
places, railrordAnd telegrsphic offices,
banking houses, etc, and TO other
clties ~ we'll. Besides this the obsery.
a'ory time 10 furnished TO the Central
IRE alarm office and the hours Of a.
M, IL m. and Q pm, are struck on
oil the fire alarm bells and Ire z ,ngs
throughout the District Of Columbia.
vi course there are thousands OF bust.
nees men and housekeepers out OF
sight OF the slime ball" and ont OF
hearing Of the fire alarm bells, and
these have TO get the exact
time ct secondhand" Watches
being on the person, are In
most cases set correctly daily,
while clocks In stores and residences
are, In many casee, set from the
watches. There Ia no electric time
company In the city, though there are
electric clocks In connection with the
wires mentioned above. Clocks are |
given swsy as advertisements some
times (good time keepers tool, and |
are more generally used than former
ly, houses which once contented them
selves With one or two, now having
one 10 every room, but watches are a.
mnch carried now as heretofore, part.
ly, perhaps, for the resson ated
above, that the opportunities for cor
recting them are greater. There are
but lev street clocks In Washinptop.
not more than d. ZEN or 60 In front
OF stores, and but three or four on TO q.
ers or In other elevated positions, and
these are not always TO be depended
npon Tor the correct time, go that IL Ia
not easy here for q man without a
watch 10 ascertain the time, except
1t 'he houp mentioned above when
bells are rung aud steam whistles
blown. Ole cannot, Ia the business
part OF the city, know tbs accurate
lime by simply looking mp, except in
about q dUz N places, and there does
not seem 10 be . tenfency a. prerent
10 improve this condition Of things.
IN mao KLYs.
Clocks on public buildings have not
increased u any noticeable extent Of
a'e In Brooklyn. A company, nat.
ierned alter one In New York CITY,
ients clocks and regulates them once
, day. the rental rangs from 81 20
T22 per annum, according 10 the siEs
md atty Q oil the case. About 900 are
n use, Tor the moat part In lawyers'
lfhces, retail shops and the saloons.
rns regulator clock IL connected by
sire with the Western Union clock In
Ses York City. The new system
,lyes unmix.d satisfaction and Ia
'rowing rapidly in favor with the
bubble generally. Not more than
thirty, all told, are In private houtes.
The standard time 10 altogether ob.
Ierved, the system coming into vogue
mined a,ely upon I've adoption by the
'silroads.
IN sEw ORLEANS.
There 10 no electtlc time company
n this city except the police and
Ire alarm telegraph. The s'and.
I'D time Ia telesra rhed from Wash.
nston TO a branch oi the United
states Photographic bore, and from
which most OF the jewellers reeula Q
heir time. There is one optioiau
here who makes transit observations
md furnishes the time 10 vessels leay.
ns this port. The use and CHI. apnesa
81 clocks have increased about 70 per
,eut. There are In all eleven clocks
visible from ttssplss aud public build.
ng,-'hree on church stseplea, one on
he Charity Hospital, one AZ tina Pow.